Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Stuff around the net

sounds right. In Minnesota, the logging season was winter, because you could easily haul out the logs, whereas in summer, the place was a bog...

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The two minute hate of the day is about Ted Cruz's father.

I'm not sure what this is about, but isn't hitting family below the belt? It should be...but Obama and Bush both had their ancestors bashed, so I guess not.

Even JFK was not immune to such things: at a time when anti Catholic sentiment was strong in the south Harry Truman opposed JFK and noted it was not his religion that was in question, but his father's financial shenanigans and his pro Nazi sympathies:

includes drug dealers using kids to smuggle or sell drugs, prostitution (where often the women take a job to be a maid, etc. and then find they are groomed as prostitutes) and organ donors/surrogate mothers, who often are paid a pittance while the "middle men" get all the money.

The western press often reads the Pope's sayings through the eyes of western culture, but he is actually speaking to those of us in the Third world, where the majority of Christians live.